The free app allows anyone with an iPhone or iPad to take a photograph, send it to the Good Samaritan warehouse in Canning Vale, have it printed as a hard copy postcard, stamped and sent in the post.
The postage cost is the same as a physical postcard at $3 domestic and $5 international.
Postcare operates from Regis Resourses’ West Perth office, (which provides money for posting and printing, and is maintained by Curtin University and Edith Cowan University students.
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READ NOW‘I didn’t want to make this commercial, I wanted this to be a 100 per cent community project for people to get together and support charity,’ Mr Makwana said.
‘I said to the Good Samaritans, ‘I will deliver the software, I will make the app, I’ll give it to you, then you have to run this enterprise’. Then every cent of profit goes to them, it is a perfect match.
‘Postcare is a way of taking care of the community while sharing memories with loved ones. I expect we will get very busy over the festive season.’
Postcare will be available on android devices before Valentine’s Day 2014.
For more information, visit postcareapp.com.au.